On the surface the youth is friendly and tolerant - an easy rider himself; beneath, as the novel turns grim and suspenseful, he is ticking - an unexploded time bomb, ready to be ignited.
He has a boyish face and an easy smile beneath iron gray hair.
Many metal silos and tanks are locally supported on columns or other discrete supports to permit easy access beneath the vessel.
Their legs became recognizable, then their arms, until finally it looked like an easy chair floating beneath a kite.
But after the initial confusion wears off it becomes easy to detect beneath the Marauder's black, bad-boy exterior (Mercury will soon be introducing a dark blue paintjob) and chrome hubcaps the car for what it really is: A Grand Marquis with a souped-up engine.
A third did not have an easy-to-hide-beneath-the-desk minitower case.
There was some kind of missionary fire beneath the easy, conversational surface of his writing.
But beneath the easy manner and the confident quips, the speech failed.
It's sometimes easy to forget that beneath the costumes, the theatrics and the tactical voting, lies a talent contest.
We liked to think of ourselves as particular, on guard against slapstick's easy laughs — Benny Hill was beneath our collective consideration.
